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Letters Home: Pictures from Niger

Letters Home: Pictures from Niger

Vreeken, Ary

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Publisher Price: $25.99

ISBN10: 1039191819
ISBN13: 9781039191815
Publisher: FriesenPress
Published: Feb 26 2024
Pages: 234
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.64 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In 1999 Ary Vreeken accepted a position as an International Development Worker for a project in Niger, with a Canadian church group. With extensive experience in both agriculture and community development in Canada and West Africa, his mission was to work with a local association of Nigerièn Christians seeking ways to improve food security in the region.

Told with great insight, compassion, and wit, Letters Home: Pictures from Niger is a fascinating collection of short vignettes based on letters sent to family back in Canada during the seven years the author, his wife, Joanna, and their four children lived in Niamey, Niger's capital city.

These vignettes-in turn, heartfelt, informative, funny, and poignant-touch upon everything from agricultural innovation and dust storms to the author's relationship with his Nigerièn colleagues, and from the unending challenge of learning French and local languages to a Kafkaesque saga of repairing a washing machine.

The experience of cross-cultural living led to the internalization of new norms and values and a very different, and much deeper, understanding of both foreign aid and the true meaning of spirituality.

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